√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1850-1899 "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ... Louisa Martindale The Bible Print : Book1850-1899 'At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ... Louisa Martindale Fraser's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ... Louisa Martindale The Times Print : Newspaper1850-1899 "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ... Louisa Martindale The Times Print : Newspaper1850-1899 "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ... Louisa Martindale Symington Print : Book1850-1899 "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ... Louisa Martindale J. A. Froude History of England Print : Book1850-1899 "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ... Louisa Martindale The Bible and Modern Thought Print : Book1850-1899 "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ... Louisa Martindale Joseph Butler Analogy of Religion Print : Book1850-1899 "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ... Louisa Martindale Memorials of Fox Print : Book1850-1899 "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ... Louisa Martindale Bancroft The American Revolution Print : Book1850-1899 "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ... Louisa Martindale Rollin Ancient History Print : Book1850-1899 "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ... Louisa Martindale Waddington Church History Print : Book1850-1899 "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ... Louisa Martindale Paley Works Print : Book1850-1899 "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ... Louisa Martindale John Locke An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Print : Book1850-1899 "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ... Louisa Martindale Mrs Jameson Characteristics of Women Print : Book1850-1899 ' .... when ... [Mark Pattison] ... met [Mrs Humphry Ward] as a girl of sixteen ... she
was familiar ... with certain pieces of Ruskin's Modern Painters, which she had ... Mary Augusta Ward John Ruskin Modern Painters Print : Book1850-1899 On advice of Mark Pattison, young Mrs Humphry Ward took up study of early Spanish,
using Bodleian "'Spanish room'". Mary Augusta Ward Texts in/on early Spanish Print : Book1900-1945 Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion; Farnell,... Joan Evans Salomon Reinach Orpheus:A History of Religions Print : Book1900-1945 Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion; Farnell,... Joan Evans Jane Harrison Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion Print : Book1900-1945 Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion; Farnell,... Joan Evans Farnell Cults of the Greek States Print : Book1900-1945 Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion; Farnell,... Joan Evans Sir James George Frazer The Golden Bough Print : Book1800-1849 " ... Elizabeth Sewell's consumption of 'modern' works in the late 1820s and 1830s, she records [in her autobiography], specifically mentioning Scott and Byron, led to wo... Elizabeth Sewell Walter Scott Print : Book1800-1849 " ... Elizabeth Sewell's consumption of 'modern' works in the late 1820s and 1830s, she records [in her autobiography], specifically mentioning Scott and Byron, led to wo... Elizabeth Sewell George Gordon Lord Byron Print : Book1800-1849 "Rocking her brother in his cradle ... [Marianne Farningham] was reading from the Sailor's Magazine and came across 'two poems, which had a marvellous effect on me'. The... Marianne Farningham poem on family Bible Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 "Rocking her brother in his cradle ... [Marianne Farningham] was reading from the Sailor's Magazine and came across 'two poems, which had a marvellous effect on me'. The... Marianne Farningham Felicia Hemans The Better Land Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 "... [Marianne Farningham's autobiography] records her childhood disappointment, when reading the Sunday School Union's magazines, at the incessant stories of poor boys w... Marianne Farningham Sunday School Union magazines Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 "The popular religious poet Frances Ridley Havergal claimed 'I do not think I was eight when I hit upon Cowper's lines, ending 'My father made them all!' That was what I... Frances Ridley Havergal William Cowper Print : Unknown"Enid Starkie claimed that reading Francis Thompson's 'The Hound of Heaven' when she was ten made her feel as though she had been taken hold of and mastered, and determin... Enid Starkie Francis Thompson The Hound of Heaven Print : Unknown1800-1849 "Charlotte M. Yonge, apprehensive that mothers in the 1890s were paying insufficient attention to what their daughters got up to on Sundays, regretted that children were ... Young Lady Augustus Stanley and sister The Bible Print : Book1850-1899 Jane Ellen Harrison, in Reminiscences of a Student's Life (1925) 11-12: "'Until I met Aunt Glegg in the Mill on the Floss, I never knew myself. I am Aunt Glegg; with all... Jane Ellen Harrison George Eliot The Mill on the Floss Print : Book1850-1899 "A. Maude Royden, whilst at Lady Margaret Hall, became immersed in Tractarianism, and she read her way through the five volumes of the life of Edward Bouverie Pusey." A. Maude Royden life of Edward Bouverie Pusey Print : Book1900-1945 '... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... she was shocked by a comment in J. A. Hobson's "The ... Margaret Cole J. A. Hobson The Science of Wealth Print : Book1900-1945 "... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... she was shocked by a comment in J. A. Hobson's The S... Margaret Cole H. G. Wells New Worlds for Old Print : Book1900-1945 "... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... she was shocked by a comment in J. A. Hobson's The S... Margaret Cole H. G. Wells The First Men in the Moon Print : Book1900-1945 "[in her autobiography Growing up Into Revolution (1949), Margaret Cole] conveys the combination of amusement and delight she and her companions experienced reading Shaw ... Margaret Cole and Girton contemporaries George Bernard Shaw Print : Unknown1850-1899 "Ellen Wilkinson, brought up in Ardwick, Manchester, went with her father to lectures on theological and evolutionary subjects, and by the time she was fourteen was readi... Ellen Wilkinson and father Ernst Haeckel Print : Book1850-1899 "Ellen Wilkinson, brought up in Ardwick, Manchester, went with her father to lectures on theological and evolutionary subjects, and by the time she was fourteen was readi... Ellen Wilkinson and father T. H. Huxley Print : Book1850-1899 "Ellen Wilkinson, brought up in Ardwick, Manchester, went with her father to lectures on theological and evolutionary subjects, and by the time she was fourteen was readi... Ellen Wilkinson and father Charles Darwin Print : Book1850-1899 "Alice Foley's father was an often drunk, sometimes violent Irish factory worker in Bolton, but when 'in sober mood, he read aloud to the family the novels of Dickens and... anon Charles Dickens novels Print : Book1850-1899 "Alice Foley's father was an often drunk, sometimes violent Irish factory worker in Bolton, but when 'in sober mood, he read aloud to the family the novels of Dickens and... anon George Eliot novels Print : Book1850-1899 '[Alice] Foley continued her education by attending night school after going to work full-time in the mill when she was thirteen. She remembers choosing "Jane Eyre" as a... Alice Foley Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1850-1899 "By the age of fifteen ... [Alice Foley] was 'enthusiastically imbibing socialist doctrines arising out of family readings and discussion of the weekly Clarion and Robert... family of Alice Foley The Clarion Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "By the age of fifteen ... [Alice Foley] was 'enthusiastically imbibing socialist doctrines arising out of family readings and discussion of the weekly Clarion and Robert... family of Alice Foley Merrry England Print : Unknown1850-1899 "By the age of fifteen ... [Alice Foley] was 'enthusiastically imbibing socialist doctrines arising out of family readings and discussion of the weekly Clarion and Robert... family of Alice Foley God and My Neighbour Print : Unknown1850-1899 "The suffragette, Annie Kenney (b.1879), looking back to her girlhood working in a Lancashire factory recalls ... going shares in a weekly girls' paper, 'full of wild rom... Annie Kenney and co-workers weekly girls' paper Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui... Hannah Mitchell theological works Print : Book1850-1899 "As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui... Hannah Mitchell early Methodist magazines Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui... Hannah Mitchell cookery books Print : Book1850-1899 "As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui... Hannah Mitchell crime/horror fiction Print : Book1850-1899 "As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui... Hannah Mitchell Horace Walpole The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story Print : Book1850-1899 "One windfall came [to Hannah Mitchell] from a passing walker, who asked if the family liked reading poetry. Although only familiar with verse in the local paper, Mitche... Hannah Mitchell William Wordsworth poems Print : Book1850-1899 "One windfall came [to Hannah Mitchell] from a passing walker, who asked if the family liked reading poetry. Although only familiar with verse in the local paper, Mitche... Hannah Mitchell local newspaper (including verse) Print : Newspaper1850-1899 While in service Hannah Mitchell read books borrowed from subscription library; "This reading was supplemented by books read at a well-stocked bookstall which she passed ... Hannah Mitchell library books Print : Book1850-1899 While in service Hannah Mitchell read books borrowed from subscription library; "This reading was supplemented by books read at a well-stocked bookstall which she passed ... Hannah Mitchell bookstall stock Print : Book1850-1899 "In order to read Lyell's controversial Vestiges of Creation when it first came to the house [of the Nonconformist minister in whose family she worked as companion and he... Mary Smith Lyell Vestiges of Creation Print : Book1850-1899 " ... [Mrs Layton (b. 1855)] remembers, when she was in service, and about sixteen, being lent some 'trashy books' by the servant next door: narratives which came out in ... Mrs Layton popular serial fiction Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 In one place in which she worked as a servant, where "Mrs Layton's" reading approved of: "she became particularly keen on reading travel literature ..." Mrs Layton travel writing Print : Unknown1850-1899 "[Jessie] Boucherett (b. 1825) ... 'one day ... caught sight, on a railway bookstall, of a number of the Englishwoman's Journal. She bought it, attracted by the title, b... Jessie Boucherett The Englishwoman's Journal Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 " ... Barbara Bodichon ... used to remember with delight the books whch James Buchanan, their father's friend and their own teacher, used to read them: 'the Bible, the Ar... James Buchanan The Bible Print : Book1800-1849 " ... Barbara Bodichon ... used to remember with delight the books whch James Buchanan, their father's friend and their own teacher, used to read them: 'the Bible, the Ar... James Buchanan The Arabian Nights Print : Book1800-1849 " ... Barbara Bodichon ... used to remember with delight the books whch James Buchanan, their father's friend and their own teacher, used to read them: 'the Bible, the Ar... James Buchanan Emanuel Swedenborg Print : Book1850-1899 "'At a critical juncture', as she put it [in her autobiography] ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] read a novel which appealed directly to her combined desires for independe... Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence Walter Besant Children of Gibeon Print : Book1850-1899 " ... it was reading a Life of Mazzini, with its description of how he founded the 'Young Italy' Society, in which each member was pledged to work for the liberation of t... Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence Life of Mazzini Print : Book1850-1899 "Before she came into contact with Suffragism ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] felt her political outlook ... had been conditioned by reading Morris, Carpenter, and Whitma... Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence William Morris poetry Print : Unknown1850-1899 "Before she came into contact with Suffragism ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] felt her political outlook ... had been conditioned by reading Morris, Carpenter, and Whitma... Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence Carpenter poetry Print : Unknown1850-1899 "Before she came into contact with Suffragism ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] felt her political outlook ... had been conditioned by reading Morris, Carpenter, and Whitma... Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence Walt Whitman poetry Print : Book1850-1899 "Harriet Shaw Weaver, as an adolescent, found Leaves of Grass 'a liberating influence and could even read it on Sundays as it wasn't a novel!'" Harriet Shaw Weaver Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass Print : Book1900-1945 "A conversion narrative precisely illustrating ... [the] effects of reading in action is told by Margaret Smith, who sceptically bought a copy of Votes for Women around 1... Margaret Smith Votes for Women Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "Annabel Huth Jackson ... [became] a 'convinced feminist' after reading an article on the white slave trade in th War Cry when she was thirteen ..." Annabel Huth Jackson The War Cry Print : Serial / periodical1500-1599 'tell supper time I hard Mr Rhodes read of Cartwright' Richard Rhodes Thomas Cartwright [unknown] Print : Book1500-1599 'In the morninge, after priuat praier, I Reed of the bible, and then wrought tell 8: a clock' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1850-1899 "Mary Brown ... wrote in her Memories that
"'I asked a Lancashire working woman what she thought of Story of an African Farm and a strange expression came over her face... anon Olive Schreiner The Story of an African Farm Print : Book1850-1899 'Murray (of the Hand-Books) has lately put forward a work which I have found very full of
entertaining reading: a couple of well-sized volumes treating of every place o... Henry James [a guidebook to the areas round London] Print : Book1850-1899 "Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle Tom's Cabin fused with talk of bazaars, relief funds... Emmeline Pankhurst Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin Print : Book1850-1899 "Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle Tom's Cabin fused with talk of bazaars, relief funds... Emmeline Pankhurst John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1850-1899 "Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle Tom's Cabin fused with talk of bazaars, relief funds... Emmeline Pankhurst The Holy War Print : Book1850-1899 "Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle Tom's Cabin fused with talk of bazaars, relief funds... Emmeline Pankhurst Homer The Odyssey Print : Book1850-1899 "Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle Tom's Cabin fused with talk of bazaars, relief funds... Emmeline Pankhurst Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution Print : Book1850-1899 "Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle Tom's Cabin fused with talk of bazaars, relief funds... Emmeline Pankhurst newspapers Print : Newspaper1850-1899 " ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in political science ... economics, psychology, sociolo... Viscountess Rhondda feminist writings Print : Unknown1850-1899 " ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in political science ... economics, psychology, sociolo... Viscountess Rhondda works on political science Print : Unknown1850-1899 " ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in political science ... economics, psychology, sociolo... Viscountess Rhondda works on economics Print : Unknown1850-1899 " ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in political science ... economics, psychology, sociolo... Viscountess Rhondda works on psychology Print : Unknown1850-1899 " ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in political science ... economics, psychology, sociolo... Viscountess Rhondda works in anthropology Print : Unknown1850-1899 ' ... [The Viscountess Rhondda] recounts the difficulty she had in acquiring ... Havelock Ellis's Psychology of Sex: even her father was not able to go straight to a shop... Viscountess Rhondda Havelock Ellis The Psychology of Sex Print : Book1900-1945 'Dora Montefiore, sent to Holloway [as suffragette] in October 1906, recalls the decor of her cell: "On the shelf were a Bible, a wooden spoon, a salt cellar, and one oth... Dora Montefiore unknown unknown Print : Book1900-1945 "Florence Spong recounted in August 1909: 'As to breaking my [prison] cell window, I told them I only followed the advice given in the book, placed in my cell, entitled '... Florence Spong A Healthy Home, and How to Keep It Print : Book1900-1945 "In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour." General Drummond Jane Porter The Scottish Chiefs Print : Book1900-1945 "In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour." General Drummond Samuel Smiles LIfe and Labour Print : Book1900-1945 "By May 1909 ... [imprisoned suffragette] Miss Broughton [had] read the lives of great women reformers like Florence Nightingale and Miss Weston ..." Lives of women reformers Print : Book1900-1945 "By May 1909 ... [imprisoned suffragette] Mrs Reonold [had been] 'especially cheered and encouraged' by reading a life of Joan of Arc." Mrs Reonold Life of Joan of Arc Print : Book1900-1945 "Whilst the Viscountess Rhondda had taken with her [to prison, where sent as suffragettte] Morley's Life of Gladstone and ... famous speeches of famous men, she resorted ... Viscountess Rhondda Edna Lyall novels Print : Book1900-1945 "Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence wrote of having read Shakespeare's history plays whilst in prison [as suffragette] ..." Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence William Shakespeare History plays Print : Book1800-1849 I have been principally engaged this day studying at an encyclopaedia by Nicholson, six octavo [volumes], a book sent by George Clark, bookseller, Aberdeen. Invoiced at s... Adam Mackie Nicholson Encyclopaedia Print : Book1800-1849 am studying part of the Encyclopaedia Edinensis, brought by a bookman, George Anton Adam Mackie Encyclopaedia Edinensis Print : Book1800-1849 At home without company afternoon and evening, looking over a little of the history of Aberdeen, which I have got lately. Adam Mackie History of Aberdeen Print : Book1800-1849 Afternoon and evening, reading Gifford's History[of the] French Revolution. The fate of Louis xvi soffiiently points oot the instability of human greatness. In his first ... Adam Mackie C.H. Gifford History of the French Revolution Print : Book1800-1849 Little doing this day...Have been reading at Gifford's History of the War and have followed Bonaparte into Egypt in July 1798. That summer I was at Rothie keeping Mr Hays... Adam Mackie C.H. Gifford History of the French Revolution Print : Book1800-1849 In my shop doing little business there, and in the intervals reading Gifford's History of the War. Adam Mackie C.H. Gifford History of the French Revolution Print : Book1800-1849 Have had no company this day with myself, and have gone on with my studies, tracing the courses of the French and British armies in Egypt in 1801. Adam Mackie C.H. Gifford History of the French Revolution Print : Book1800-1849 Afternoon reading Rollin's History Adam Mackie Charles Rollin The Roman History Print : Book1800-1849 Afternoon reading Rollin, wherein instruction may be learned. Indulge not in ease. It enfeebles the body and ,although one could afford luxury, it should not be indulged... Adam Mackie Charles Rollin The Roman History Print : Book1800-1849 Afternoon reading Rollin's history of Antiochus Epiphanus, who persecuted the Jews. Adam Mackie Charles Rollin The Roman History Print : Book1800-1849 Spent the evening reading Paulus Emillius's Campaign in Macedonia and the Overthrow of Perseus, the last king thereof. Adam Mackie Charles Rollin The Roman History Print : Book1800-1849 At even reading from Rollin the defeat of the Romans under Crassus, 54 BC, the history of Hieron, the good king of Syracuse and the siege of Suracuse by the Romans under ... Adam Mackie Charles Rollin The Roman History Print : Book1800-1849 At Kirk as usual. Spent the rest of the day and evening reading Addison's Evidences of the Christian Religion Adam Mackie Joseph Addison Evidences of the Christian Religion Print : Book1800-1849 Have amused myself this evening reading the Life of Christ. Adam Mackie John Fleetwood The Life of Jesus Christ, together with the lives Print : Book1800-1849 At church [...] Had Dr Argo part of this evening, who was down seeing the boys head.[...] Filled up the rest of the time reading the Life of Christ, a work that suggests ... Adam Mackie John Fleetwood The Life of Jesus Christ, together with the lives Print : Book1800-1849 Was some little time up at my Father's this afternoon. Afterwards reading Fleetwood's Life of Christ, an engaging discourse although not handled in my opinion to the same... Adam Mackie John Fleetwood The Life of Jesus Christ, together with the lives Print : Book1800-1849 Spent the evening reading Fleetwood's Lives of the Apostles [NB part of life of Christ] Adam Mackie John Fleetwood The Life of Jesus Christ, together with the lives Print : Book1800-1849 Have employed this evening reading the history and theory of the gas lights from a number of the Encyclopaedia Adam Mackie ' an Encyclopaedia' Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Had no company. Passed the afternoon reading part of Boston's Fourfold State. Adam Mackie Thomas Boston Human Nature in its Fourfold State Print : Book1800-1849 have been in the shop steadily this day (which has been cold and blowing), reading in Hume's History of England- the Norman Conquest. Adam Mackie David Hume History of England Print : Book1800-1849 Am in shop about steady this day doing little else but reading Humes' England Adam Mackie David Hume History of England Print : Book1800-1849 Reading astromomy at even. [ I suspect this is Scott's Guy Mannering, the Astrologer] Adam Mackie [Astronomy] Unknown 1800-1849 Was engaged this forenoon sorting some lint yarn, and all the rest of my spare time reading [Guy] Mannering Adam Mackie Walter Scott Guy Mannering, or the Astrologer Print : Book1800-1849 I have been in the shop all day and during the intervals of business reading Scott's novel of Redgauntlet Adam Mackie Walter Scott Redgauntlet Print : Book1800-1849 I continue in the shop; am occupying my spare time reading Scott's novel of the Abbot. The subject is cheifly on the manner of Queen Mary's imprisonment in the Castle of ... Adam Mackie Walter Scott The Abbot Print : Book1800-1849 I have been engaged this day posting my shop books etc. during my spare time reading a novel- The Pirate [Scott] Adam Mackie Walter Scott The Pirate Print : Book1800-1849 Reading Scott's Tales of My Landlord. Consists of the prosecutions and slaughters by the Military [of] Covenanters in Charles 2nd's time. Scene of the story lies in the ... Adam Mackie Walter Scott Tales of My Landlord Print : Book1800-1849 Employed myself reading Constables Miscellany- voyages, mutinies and shipwrecks in the Southern Ocean Adam Mackie Archibald Constable Miscellany Print : Book1700-1799 "Doctor Gregory's Book was published at Edin [r] just two Days before I left that Place...I read it, tho butin the hurried Way which the Eve of Journey allowed of...I als... Henry Mackenzie Dr John Gregory A Father's Legacy to his Daughters Print : Book1850-1899 'The celebrated singer Sir Harry Lauder, when he was still a mineworker, acquired a fair knowledge of American history: "George Washington and Abraham Lincoln ranked seco... Harry Lauder [unknown] [American History] Print : Book1850-1899 'The celebrated singer Sir Harry Lauder, when he was still a mineworker, acquired a fair knowledge of American history: "George Washington and Abraham Lincoln ranked seco... Harry Lauder Robert Burns [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'The celebrated singer Sir Harry Lauder, when he was still a mineworker, acquired a fair knowledge of American history: "George Washington and Abraham Lincoln ranked seco... Harry Lauder Walter Scott [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avon... Mary Lakeman Susan M. Coolidge What Katy Did Print : Book1900-1945 'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avon... Mary Lakeman Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Avonlea Print : Book1900-1945 'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avon... Mary Lakeman Mark Twain Tom Sawyer Print : Book1900-1945 'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avon... Mary Lakeman Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn Print : Book1900-1945 'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avon... Mary Lakeman James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans Print : Book1900-1945 'V.S. Pritchett's "popular educator" was the literary section of the Christian Science Monitor: "It was imbued with that unembarrassed seriousness about learning things w... Victor Sawdon Pritchett n/a Christian Science Monitor Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, "but I could not have named th... Vernon Scannell Siegfried Sassoon [war poems] Print : Book1900-1945 'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, "but I could not have named th... Vernon Scannell Wilfred Owen [war poems] Print : Book1900-1945 'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, "but I could not have named th... Vernon Scannell Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms Print : Book1900-1945 'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, "but I could not have named th... Vernon Scannell Robert Graves Goodbye to All That Print : Book1900-1945 'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, "but I could not have named th... Vernon Scannell Edmund Blunden Undertones of War Print : Book1900-1945 'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, "but I could not have named th... Vernon Scannell's family n/a [newspapers] Print : Newspaper1700-1799 One little book that my father had given me the last time he was at home, was for a long time afterwards my inseparable companion... My dear Papa's beautiful storybook. Ellen Weeton ['A storybook'] Print : Book1700-1799 The only gratification I ever sought was to be permitted to sit quietly in my brother's room, with a book. That room was more pleasant and retired than the one I slept in... Ellen Weeton [unknown] Print : Book1700-1799 Religion is such a consolation to a drooping spirit,that I could wish thou wouldest seek for comfort and cheerfulness in it; for God never forsakes those who turn to him.... Ellen Weeton ['Psalms'] Print : Book1700-1799 [review of the novel. Noted but not reproduced by the editor] Ellen Weeton Anne Louise Stael-Holstein Corinna, or Italy Print : Book1700-1799 Books lately read: A Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Dr Johnson, by James Boswell, Esq. J. Boswell does appear so wonderfully simple, so surprisingly ingenuous, t... Ellen Weeton James Boswell The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Print : Book1700-1799 I have to attend to the direction of the House, the table &c, as well as literary studies; to assist in entertaining company in the parlour; and give directions to the se... Ellen Weeton [books on carving] Print : Book1700-1799 Miss R. staid 2 or 3 days withme; the rest of the time I was entirely alone, spending the time chiefly in reading and writing letters, until I had brought on an almost pe... Ellen Weeton [unknown] Print : Book1700-1799 'Books lately read' Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his son, 4 vols. It has been said of these letters... The first and 2nd vols appear to me unexceptionable. Of the othe... Ellen Weeton Philip Dormer Stanhope Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Phili Print : Book1700-1799 [Has spent week repairing her brother's clothes] The week after that was as much occupied in copying some songs and the music belonging to them, which my brother had lent... Ellen Weeton [songs and music] Unknown 1700-1799 When I begin to enumerate the works I have read since I came to Dove's-Nest, I feel surprised that I should have read so few, and that the greater part of those few shoul... Ellen Weeton [novels] Print : Book1700-1799 A Satyrical View of London, by J. Corry. 1 vol. The above vol. is a tolerable production; it treats principally of fashion, beaux, belles, London tradesmen, quack doctor... Ellen Weeton John Corry A Satirical View of London at the Commencement of Print : Book1700-1799 Windermere: A Novel in 2 vols This is below Mediocrity; the title [title is underlined]induced me to read it; and with the title I am satisfied-and disappointed. Ellen Weeton By the Editor of the Letters of Maria Windermere. A Novel Print : Book1700-1799 Letters on Mythology Addressed to a Lady by R. Morgan, 1 vol. A humourous and entertaining production, written in a light and easy style, to make it palatable to a lady's... Ellen Weeton R Morgan Letters on Mythology Print : Book1700-1799 Lessons of a Governess to her Pupils by Madame de Silery- Brulart (formerly Countess de Genlis) 3 vols. For further remarks see page 11th. Ellen Weeton Stephanie de Genlis Brulart Lessons of a Governess to Her Pupils Print : Book1700-1799 Lake of Killarney, by A.M. Porter. 3 vols. Rose de Blaguere, a foundling, is the heroine of the tale. Mr Clermont the hero. Mr O'Neil and his maiden sister bring up Rose... Ellen Weeton Anna Maria Porter Lake of Killarney Print : Book1700-1799 The Cottagers of Glenburnie. 1 vol. by Miss Hamilton. A little tale tending to shew the folly of adhering to old customs merely because they have been habitual for many g... Ellen Weeton Miss Elizabeth Hamilton The Cottagers of Glenburnie: A Tale for the Farmer Print : Book1700-1799 The Mysterious Gentleman Farmer. 3 vols. by J.Cory [sic] There is nothing in this novel, or in the author's Satyrical View of London, that would induce me to waste my tim... Ellen Weeton John Corry The Mysterious Gentleman Farmer Print : Book1700-1799 An Essay on Old Maids. 3 vols. Has my approbation, although, or because, I am an Old Maid. What is the public opinion, I never heard - nor any opinion - but shall take t... Ellen Weeton W Hayley A Philosophical, Historical and Moral Essay on Old... Print : Book1700-1799 I read very seldom indeed having in the first place but very little time for it... and in the second place, Mr & Mrs A. having never offered to lend me any books except a... Ellen Weeton David Brewster The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, Conducted by D. Brews Print : Book1850-1899 'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincerely believed in robbing the rich to help the poor". (... anon Robin Hood Print : Book, Serial / periodical1850-1899 'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincerely believed in robbing the rich to help the poor". (... anon Jack Sheppard Print : Book, Serial / periodical1850-1899 'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincerely believed in robbing the rich to help the poor". (... anon Dick Turpin Print : Book, Serial / periodical1850-1899 'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincerely believed in robbing the rich to help the poor". (... anon Charles Peace Print : Book, Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led to better things": by fourteen he had seen Richard ... Robert Smillie anon Dick Turpin Print : Book, Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led to better things": by fourteen he had seen RIchard ... Robert Smillie anon Three Fingered Jack Print : Book, Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led to better things": by fourteen he had seen RIchard ... Robert Smillie William Shakespeare Sonnets Print : Book1850-1899 'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led to better things": by fourteen he had seen RIchard ... Robert Smillie Robert Burns [poems] Print : Book1850-1899 'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led to better things": by fourteen he had seen RIchard ... Robert Smillie Walter Scott [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led to better things": by fourteen he had seen RIchard ... Robert Smillie Charles Dickens [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London hatmaker Frederick Willis. "No boy would be any the w... Frederick Willis [penny dreadfuls] Print : Book1850-1899 '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London hatmaker Frederick Willis. "No boy would be any the w... Frederick Willis George Bernard Shaw Print : Book1850-1899 '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London hatmaker Frederick Willis. "No boy would be any the w... Frederick Willis Herbert George Wells Print : Book1850-1899 '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London hatmaker Frederick Willis. "No boy would be any the w... Frederick Willis William Makepeace Thackeray Print : Book1850-1899 '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London hatmaker Frederick Willis. "No boy would be any the w... Frederick Willis Charles Dickens Print : Book1850-1899 '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London hatmaker Frederick Willis. "No boy would be any the w... Frederick Willis Henry Fielding Print : Book1850-1899 '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London hatmaker Frederick Willis. "No boy would be any the w... Frederick Willis William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London hatmaker Frederick Willis. "No boy would be any the w... Frederick Willis Geoffrey Chaucer Print : Book1850-1899 'Children's Papers could lead readers to great literature in more direct ways. As Willis noted, "Union Jack" serialised abridgements of Walter Scott novels, with more sen... Frederick Willis n/a Union Jack Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Children's Papers could lead readers to great literature in more direct ways. As Willis noted, "Union Jack" serialised abridgements of Walter Scott novels, with more sen... Frederick Willis Walter Scott [various works, abridged] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Children's Papers could lead readers to great literature in more direct ways. As Willis noted, "Union Jack" serialised abridgements of Walter Scott novels, with more sen... Frederick Willis n/a Chatterbox Christmas Annual Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 ??we were soon in a free conversation on the subject of parliamentary reform. When objections were stated, they listened candidly to our replies, and a good-humoured disc... Samuel Bamford William Cobbett Weekly Register Print : Newspaper1800-1849 ??we were soon in a free conversation on the subject of parliamentary reform. When objections were stated, they listened candidly to our replies, and a good-humoured disc... Samuel Bamford William Hone [political pamphlets] Print : Pamphlet1800-1849 ?They [wife and child] had been at prayers, and were reading the Testament before retiring to rest?. Samuel Bamford's wife and child [n/a] The Testament Print : Book1850-1899 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source,... John Paton n/a Boys' Friend Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source,... John Paton John Lothrop Motley The Rise of the Dutch Republic Print : Book1850-1899 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source,... John Paton John Richard Green [history] Print : Book1850-1899 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source,... John Paton Thomas Babington Macaulay [probably The History of England from the Accessio... Print : Book1850-1899 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source,... John Paton William Hickling Prescott [Spanish history] Print : Book1850-1899 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source,... John Paton Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen History of Rome Print : Book1850-1899 'East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories "were condemned by our teachers (all from middle class backgrounds) who would co... Walter Southgate [penny dreadfuls about Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bil... Print : Book1850-1899 'East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories "were condemned by our teachers (all from middle class backgrounds) who would co... Walter Southgate Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1850-1899 'East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories "were condemned by our teachers (all from middle class backgrounds) who would co... Walter Southgate Walter Scott [Waverley Novels] Print : Book1850-1899 'East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories "were condemned by our teachers (all from middle class backgrounds) who would co... Walter Southgate James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans Print : Book'As a boy George Acorn [an] East Londoner, read "all sorts and conditions of books from 'Penny Bloods' to George Eliot" with "some appreciation of style", enough to recog... George Acorn ['Penny Bloods'] Print : Book'As a boy George Acorn [an] East Londoner, read "all sorts and conditions of books from 'Penny Bloods' to George Eliot" with "some appreciation of style", enough to recog... George Acorn George Eliot [pseud] Print : Book'As a boy George Acorn [an] East Londoner, read "all sorts and conditions of books from 'Penny Bloods' to George Eliot" with "some appreciation of style", enough to recog... George Acorn Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island Print : Book1900-1945 'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabelais; towering Plato...") and, having taught himself G... William Holt Thomas Carlyle Print : Book1900-1945 'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabelais; towering Plato...") and, having taught himself G... William Holt Leo Tolstoy Print : Book1900-1945 'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabelais; towering Plato...") and, having taught himself G... William Holt Francis Bacon Print : Book1900-1945 'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabelais; towering Plato...") and, having taught himself G... William Holt Francois Rabelais Print : Book1900-1945 'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabelais; towering Plato...") and, having taught himself G... William Holt Plato Print : Book1900-1945 'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabelais; towering Plato...") and, having taught himself G... William Holt Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Print : Book1900-1945 'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabelais; towering Plato...") and, having taught himself G... William Holt [dime novels] Print : Book
